Date of birth | 31 March 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Place of birth | Exeter, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Physiotherapist, rugby player | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Abbie Fleming (born 31 March 1996) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays flanker for the Wales women's national rugby union team and lock for Harlequins in the Premier 15s. [1] She made her international debut for Wales against Spain in 2019. [2] [3]
Fleming began playing rugby at the age of 12. Following a move to Wales from her hometown of Exeter she played for Topsham Tempests RFC, Llandaff North RFC and then Cardiff Blues in Welsh regional rugby, [2] captaining the side in the summer of 2019. [4] [3] She joined Exeter Chiefs in 2020. [2] [3]
Fleming won her first cap against Spain in the 2019 Autumn Internationals [2] and subsequently represented Wales at the 2021 Six Nations Championship. [5] She has also played against the Barbarians at the Principality Stadium. [2]
In January 2022, She was one of 31 Welsh players who have received full-time contracts. [6] [7] She was selected for Wales sevens squad for the Lisbon leg of the 2022 Rugby Europe Sevens Championship Series. [8]
Fleming has won three caps in her rugby career to date. [1] She played in the warm-up match against Canada ahead of the World Cup. [9] [10] She was selected in Wales squad for the 2021 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. [11] [12]
She was named in the Welsh side for the 2025 Six Nations Championship in March. [13] [14] On 11 August 2025, she was named in the Welsh squad to the Women's Rugby World Cup in England. [15] [16]
Fleming was temporarily unable to play rugby following an ACL reconstruction procedure in April 2019. [4]
Outside of rugby, Fleming is a qualified community and hospital physiotherapist in Bridgend, South Wales. [2] [17] During the COVID-19 pandemic she was on the NHS frontline working as part of the respiratory on-call rota at Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend. [18] [7]